"Traditional English name"
The name Bruin is commonly a male name from the "English" origin.
Bruin is an English noun for a bear, borrowed from Middle Dutch bruin, meaning brown, and recorded in English from the medieval period. The bear in the beast epic Reynard the Fox, translated by William Caxton in 1481, is named Bruin. The same form is also a Dutch and Flemish surname, taken from a nickname for a brown-haired or brown-complexioned person.
The pronunciation of Bruin is BROO-in.
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